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Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.
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This one?
It's completely different. In that case, they were able to set up a fake business to accept payments, which is way more sophisticated than what happened to me. In my case, they just needed my login name and phone number, and I had reused the login name on several sites, so a number of places could have been involved in a breach. All the scammer had to do in my case was:
That's it, just two pieces of information, some smooth talking, and a little luck that I don't catch on. Corey Doctorow's situation required quite a bit more setup than that:
That's a lot more sophisticated than what happened to me.
He got scammed again? Damn. Sorry, I was referring this one. And not really the details of the scam, but it was the wrong place / wrong time element that reminded me.
Edit: the article you linked is older, so I guess not "again".
Oh yeah, that's a lot more similar.